ACW Issues

A Place for Reflection It’s hard to imagine the United States without Arlington National Cemetery. That solemn garden of stone is an American icon, a “must see” on visits to Washington, D.C. Guidebooks enable visitors to pay...

Subscribe to America’s Civil War magazine today! FEATURES My 15 Minutes Out of the Attic By Robert Lee Hodge From the cover of Confederates in the Attic to a “Primetime Live” television feature, a reenactor discovered the...

Why Reenactors Are Important When Confederates in the Attic was published 10 years ago, its more vocal critics assailed it as a mere trav-elogue of author Tony Horwitz’s tour of the South with, in their minds, a band of rather ridiculous...

Subscribe to America’s Civil War magazine today! FEATURES Lincoln’s Fleeting Hope for an Early End to the War By Tom Wheeler and Trevor K. Plante A newly discovered note penned by Abraham Lincoln after the Union victory at...

Lincoln’s Relentless Quest for Victory Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant were each genuinely honest, decent, compassionate men. But each of them could be utterly ruthless when it came to military decisions. Early in 1864, Lincoln...

Subscribe to America’s Civil War magazine today! FEATURES West Versus East By Steven E. Woodworth Gettysburg and the Eastern theater have gotten most of the publicity, but the Western theater is where the Union defeated the...

The Old Man Was Right It was easy to make fun of Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott in the spring of 1861, so fat he could not mount a horse and “senile” at 75 years of age. It was easy to forget that he had been the best soldier of America’s...

Subscribe to America’s Civil War magazine today! FEATURES America’s Bloodiest Day George McClellan’s lucky find of Robert E. Lee’s Special Orders No. 191 led to a fight near Antietam Creek on what became the bloodiest day...

A Confederate and a Colt Named Peyton Since there has been much speculation on whether the quarterback Peyton Manning of the Indianapolis Colts is related to Major Peyton T. Manning of the Confederate Army and General James Longstreet’s...

September is America’s cruelest month. The three most costly events in human terms suffered by our country occurred in that ninth month of the year. On September 11, 2001, jets fell out of clear blue skies to kill roughly 3,000 people in...

Subscribe to America’s Civil War magazine today! FEATURES Annihilation of a Regiment By J. David Petruzzi The 6th U.S. Cavalry was out for a bit of glory near Gettysburg, but the Confederate Laurel Brigade had other ideas for the...

Subscribe to America’s Civil War magazine today! FEATURES The Mystery of Private Edwin Jemison By Alexandra Filipowski & Hugh T. Harrington This vulnerable young private’s face has long been an icon of the Civil War. For years...

IRON BRIGADE Bonding With the Past Great stuff on the Iron Brigade in the March issue! I’m a reenactor, and several years ago when I participated in a living history event for the Wisconsin Veteran’s Museum, Bill Brewster was kind...

When pursuing the truth about history, few would be able to use, and few would likely approve of, the methods of Major General Smedley D. Butler. In 1921, when he doubted that “Stonewall” Jackson’s amputated left arm had been buried...

Remember Corporal-Captain Radar on M*A*S*H? My thanks for publishing the story of my telegrapher great-grandfather, Seargent Prentiss Peabody. There is one small correction that my family would appreciate. I want to point out to your...

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